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  • Oil and Gas Prices & Analysis
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  • World Industry News
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  • Exploration & Discoveries
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  • Drilling & Completion
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  • Development & Production
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  • Licensing & Concessions
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  • Geosciences
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  • Health Safety & Environment
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  • Company News
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  • Industry Events
    •   Oil and Gas Prices & Analysis
    Finally a turnaround in crude prices
    (8/17/2010) After five consecutive days of dropping crude oil futures prices, they made a 360 today that sent all of our monitored benchmarks up across the board. Traders at both the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) and the InterContinental Exchange (ICE) in London attribute the change of direction to the US dollar falling in value against the euro and several other key currencies, which provided a big stimulus for higher prices...Complete Daily Prices & Analysis
      World Industry News
    (8/15/2010) Trinidad & Tobago and Venezuela to unitize border gasfields
    (8/13/2010) OPEC ups forecast for global oil demand
    ...More World Industry News
      Exploration & Discoveries
    (8/18/2010) InterOil scores with onshore Peru discovery
    (8/18/2010) Prime setting surface casing in Louisiana Turner Bayou well
    (8/18/2010) Apache scores dual oil strikes onshore Egypt
    (8/18/2010) PT Medco drilling 3 CBM wells in South Sumatra
    (8/18/2010) Rockhopper's 2nd Falklands test well a dry hole
    (8/17/2010) Alange scores discovery in Colombia's Carbonera Block
    (8/17/2010) Afghanistan reports discovery of 1.8 billion bbl oilfield
    (8/17/2010) Serica prepping to drill 2 test wells off East Kalimantan
    (8/17/2010) Anadarko makes oil discovery offshore Mozambique
    (8/17/2010) Empire taps oil in Nevada's Cobble Cuesta
    (8/17/2010) BG's QGC Walloon coal seam well cased for production
    (8/17/2010) Kulczyk's KUB-Gas drilling Ukraine's Makeevskoye Block
    (8/17/2010) Premier draws a duster with UK North Sea exploration well
    (8/16/2010) Tuatara-1 off NZ's Taranaki Basin being plugged & abandoned
    (8/16/2010) OGX estimates Parnaiba discovery in Brazil at 15 Tcf (update)
    (8/16/2010) Woodside strikes gas with Alaric-1 exploration well
    (8/16/2010) Chevron scores again off Western Australia
    ...More Exploration & Discoveries
      Drilling & Completion
    (8/17/2010) President Petroleum contracts Ensign rig for South Australia well
    (8/17/2010) Halliburton contracted to drill 15 wells in Iraq's Majnoon Field
    (8/17/2010) Shell gets approval to use Seadrill drillship on Ormen Lange
    (8/16/2010) Kencana newbuild tender rig set for work off Sabah
    ...More Drilling & Completion
      Development & Production
    (8/18/2010) Turkmenneft drills major gas producer in southern Turkmenistan
    (8/18/2010) Bill Barrett gets go-ahead to develop West Tavaputs Field
    (8/18/2010) Eagle Rock shuts in East Texas oil & gas output
    (8/18/2010) Canacol tests 1st of 5 wells in Colombia's Rancho Hermoso
    (8/18/2010) Victoria drills & completes 2 Logbaba wells in Cameroon
    (8/18/2010) Cuu Long JOC puts Vietnam's Su Tu Nau-3x Field on production
    (8/18/2010) Crimson completes Mid-Bossier Shale well in Texas
    (8/18/2010) Alamo completing 5 Taylor Lease wells in Kentucky
    (8/17/2010) PetroChina's Tarim Oilfield 2 largest gasfields producing 1.27 Tcf/d
    (8/17/2010) American's latest North Dakota Bakken well flows after frac
    (8/17/2010) Coastal adds 40 ft of pay in Thailand's offshore Bua Ban Field
    (8/17/2010) Breitling completing coastal Texas well as a producer
    (8/16/2010) Exall adds 2 wells in Marten Mountain Project
    (8/16/2010) Texon chalks up 7th Leighton success in South Texas
    (8/16/2010) Hawkley's Sorochynska-201 near target depth
    (8/16/2010) Calvalley finds light oil in Yemen's Ras Nowmah Field
    (8/16/2010) BPZ gets more time for Corvina well tests
    ...More Development & Production
      Licensing & Concessions
    (8/18/2010) Apache farms into Western Australia northern Carnarvon permit
    (8/18/2010) Mexco Energy buys royalty stakes Haynesville play
    (8/18/2010) Europa scores 2 UK offshore coal gasification licenses
    (8/18/2010) Africa Oil acquires Alberta Oilsands' Kenya interests
    (8/18/2010) Kosmos terminates $4 billion sale of Ghana holdings
    (8/17/2010) Devon stake in ACG split between BP, Chevron, Inpex, & Itochu
    (8/17/2010) Faroe doubling stake in Norway's Clapton license
    (8/17/2010) Eni enters DR Congo via farm-in into N'Dunda Block
    (8/16/2010) Stanwell okays 2nd stage of farm-in into Icon's ATP626P
    (8/16/2010) Vaalco farms out stake in onshore Gabon concession
    (8/16/2010) Chariot shifts to renewal phase in Namibia offshore blocks
    (8/16/2010) RAK farming out 50% stake in Oman block
    (8/16/2010) Universal wins extension to Namibia work program
    ...More Licensing & Concessions
      Geosciences
    (8/16/2010) SeaBird & Sonar contracted for OBN survey off Nigeria
    (8/16/2010) ARKeX commences survey for Svenska in Guinea Bissau
    (8/16/2010) TTI completes Alabama section of GulfSCAN survey
    ...More Geosciences
      LNG/LPG
    (8/12/2010) Inpex entertaining sale of stakes in Ichthys project
    ...More LNG/LPG
      Health Safety & Environment
    (8/17/2010) Vessel collides with West Madura wellhead platform
    ...More Health Safety & Environment
      Company News
    (8/18/2010) Keppel Shipyard contracted to modify the OSX 1 FPSO
    (8/18/2010) Statoil contracts PetroChina sub for Mozambique project
    (8/17/2010) Parker's EDP picked for ATP's US Gulf Gomez Project
    (8/17/2010) Baker Hughes acquires Canadian artificial lift company
    (8/17/2010) JOGMEC contracts Triton XLR ROV system
    (8/16/2010) Plains fined for not submitting monthly production reports
    (8/16/2010) JOGMEC & Kuwait Petroleum join to boost Kuwait oil output
    ...More Company News
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      Industry Events
    August 19-20
    Society of Petrophysicists & Well Log Analysts NAPE Summer Expo, Houston, Texas USA
    August 21-24
    Society of Petrophysicists & Well Log Analysts SIPES 47th Annual Meeting, Colorado Springs, Colorado USA
    August 22-26
    Society of Petrophysicists & Well Log Analysts The Oil & Gas Conference, Denver, Colorado, USA
    August 22-26
    ASEG/PESA Conference & Exhibition, Sydney, Australia
    August 23-27
    Production Optimization Week - Asia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
    August 24-27
    Offshore Northern Seas (ONS) 2010, Stavanger, Norway
    August 26-28
    Annual World Congress of Hydraulic Fracturing & Acidizing, Xi'an, China
    August 31- September 1
    Drilling Strategies 2010, Singapore
    September 6-8
    Near Surface 2010 (EAGE), Zurich, Switzerland
    September 12-16
    World Energy Conference, Montreal, Canada
    September 13-16
    Rio Oil & Gas Expo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    September 19-22
    2010 New Zealand Petroleum Conference, Auckland, New Zealand
    September 20-22
    SPE Annual Technical Conference & Exhibition, Florence, Italy
    ...More Events

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